El Pais Tentaciones just caught the wrath of Lena Dunham after the Spanish newspaper featured an image that the director and Girls star claims featured “more than the average photoshop.”
On Monday, Dunham posted the cover photo to her Instagram, thanking the paper for featuring her while also taking a not-so-subtle jab at the publishers due to the way that the photo was edited.
The picture in question was taken in 2013 by Raven Afanador and featured in a spread for Entertainment Weekly. On Tuesday, the editors of El Pais published an open letter addressed to Dunham in which they denied changing anything about the photo, claiming that they only used the original image that they later received from the Corbis Agency.
“Those who know and follow our magazine know that we do not use Photoshop or other digital tools to change the physique of the people featured on our cover or inside stories,” the letter reads. “This time we just cropped the original image to fit the format of our cover.”
Soon after, the actress Instagrammed the photo again, this time with an apologetic caption.
“[But] it’s a weird feeling to see a photo and not know if it’s your own body anymore (and I’m pretty sure that will ever be my thigh width but I honestly can’t tell what’s been slimmed and what hasn’t.),” she wrote. “I’m not blaming anyone (y’know, except for society at large.) I have a long and complicated history with retouching. I wanna live in this wild world and play the game and get my work seen, and I also want to be honest about who I am and what I stand for.”
Dunham’s apology is pretty long but she goes on to blame several other possible reasons as to why she slammed the newspaper in the first place, including the criticism of Hillary Clinton, whom she has publicly endorsed, and turning 30.
Raven Afanador still has yet to comment on the issue.